Homer's people : epic poetry and social formation /
This book examines the role and character of Homer's people, laoi, in Homeric story-telling, arguing that Homeric poetry is crucially concerned with the people as a basis for communal life. Both The Iliad and The Odyssey are read as sustained meditations on the processes involved in protecting...
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2000.
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| Series: | Cambridge classical studies.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Between the omnipresent hero and the absent polis
- 1. Laoi in early Greek hexameter poetry. 'Shepherd of the people'. Privilege and obligation. An epic ideal. The failed ideal. Social structures. An incurable imbalance. Negative reciprocity. Society and the stone. 'The people of the Achaeans'
- 2. Homer's people. Laoi in the Iliad. Laoi in the Odyssey
- 3. Laos epic in performance. Some preliminary considerations. Homer's people outside Homer. Similarities. Differences. The founding people. Leos ritual. Ritual formulae. A festival of institutional progress. Laos epic in performance. App. A. Epic formulae
- App. B. Ritual formulae.
